Outrage after Trump administration suspends job training program for low-income youth [View all]
Source: The Independent
Friday 30 May 2025 23:56 EDT
The Trump administration’s Department of Labor announced on Thursday it would suspend operations of the Job Corps training program, prompting bipartisan criticism.
“The Department should have attempted to fix them but, instead of working with the contractors and helping students, they’ve just decided to send the students home,” Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat of Tennessee, wrote in a statement. “The Department of Labor apparently has no plans for an improved product or a new approach. This careless approach will upset the lives of too many ambitious members of a future workforce, and should be condemned.”
Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, also said she “strongly” opposes pausing the program as part of the administration’s push to cut spending, calling the Job Corps centers in her state “important pillars of support for some of our most disadvantaged young adults.”
The Labor Department announced the shift on Thursday, saying it “reflects the Administration’s commitment to ensure federal workforce investments deliver meaningful results for both students and taxpayers.” It argued the program, created in 1964 to offer free residential education and job training to low-income teens and young adults, was delivering poor results.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-labor-job-corps-budget-b2761120.html
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